When was the last time you felt excited about your job? Not complacent, but actually excited about a project you’re working on? If you have to think about the answer, or every night feels like a Sunday night, it might be time to think about embracing a new challenge – or looking for an entirely new job.

Post-pandemic workers are changing jobs more frequently than ever before, but the reasons for moving are not always the same. A recent survey from consultancy firm PWC showed that for the majority of workers, a lack of fulfillment in a role (69%) or an inability to be themselves (66%) are the main drivers for job seekers. 

But what if you don’t have a pressing need? How do you know if you’re ready for a new challenge or if you’re just disillusioned with work? Here are some pointers.

Explore The Market 

You won’t know what you’re missing if you don’t explore the opportunities that are out there. If something isn’t working with your current role and you can’t figure out why, explore available jobs within the same industry and see what piques your interest. 

Now, compare the job specs, salary ranges and responsibilities and see what’s missing from your role. This way you can decide whether those opportunities exist within your current role or whether you need to find a new opportunity. 

The Silicon Canals Job Board is full of available job opportunities across all sectors, each one outlining responsibilities, requirements and what the role itself entails. It’s a great place to start your search to see what’s out there, and to begin putting a plan together. 

Emotional Audit 

What were you like when you started out in your current role or in your current industry? Were you hungry for progression, always keeping an eye on industry trends and networking to know about upcoming opportunities? 

Perform an audit on your career, and instead of looking back at roles and different employers, look at how you felt in each role, how motivated you were and how happy you were. If your approach to work has changed over time it may be because you’ve changed as a person and have new priorities, or it may be because you’re no longer challenged and to level up or sideways. 

Step Up – Or Step Out 

What do you do when you see an opportunity that will impact your company’s bottom line, reputation or overall success? Do you step up, identify the projects with your managers and lead the charge on tackling it? Or do you step out and leave it for somebody else to deal with? 

If it’s the latter, it’s time for a change. Recognising a new challenge and choosing not to embrace it is a sign that you’re mentally checked out and no longer care about your employer or your contribution. It’s a sign you really need to move on. 

After doing that are you ready for a challenge? Here are three available roles from the Silicon Canals Job Board with dozens more ready to be explored. 

Senior Cloud Engineer, CrowdStrike 

The Role: The Senior Cloud Engineer will work closely with security analysts around the globe to improve existing tooling and develop novel solutions to improve the overall efficacy of products as well as the efficiency of analysts.

The Responsibilities: You will be responsible for identifying and resolving performance and reliability issues, as well as designing and implementing solutions to scale at speed. 

The Requirements: You will have practical experience building web services and date pipelines at scale as well as building services within a microservices architecture. You will also have operational knowledge of relational, NoSQL and graph databases. 

Apply for the Senior Cloud Engineer role or browse other roles at CrowdStrike. 

Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon

The Role: The Software Development Engineer will design, implement, test, document, and support cross-cutting services to help customers do machine learning at scale. 

The Responsibilities: You will serve as technical lead on complex projects using best practice engineering standards, and hire/mentor junior development engineers. You will do everything from determining priorities and designing features to re-architecture as necessary, automated testing and mentoring others. 

The Requirements: You will have experience building software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers as well as a working knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle.

Apply for the Software Development Engineer role or explore other opportunities at Amazon. 

Software Enterprise Architect, Siemens 

The Role: As Software Enterprise Architect you will be crucial for identifying the system architecture, core framework design, and development of backend modules and services.

The Responsibilities: You will be responsible for developing robust, scalable, and flexible solution architectures for various initiatives including crafting prototypes and building proof of concepts.

The Requirements: You will have business architecture experience applied to establish alignment between business and software teams for technology initiatives, as well as substantial technical experience in enterprise architecture for embedded software solutions.

Apply for the Software Enterprise Architect job, or explore all other roles with Siemens.

Ready for a brand new you? Check out lots of career opportunities on the Silicon Canals Job Board today